US Hawks Hang Gliding Association

Thanks Neil,

I've pasted a version of your photo here. I wanted to preserve it in another place ... in case photobucket ... kicks the bucket.

We are working on a more accurate draft to present to the stone cutter -
I will have a digital visual draft up here soon

Here is a sample of a Bronze type detailed plaque that could be issued later on ...

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This is a draft - do we have any comments ?
This is simply a working draft
possibly Bob - you may use this to expidite some communication with those
masons in Cali ?

At page:
http://www.energykitesystems.net/OttoMe ... onlog.html
are offers, so far. Perhaps US Hawks could run a poll at some point after critique of phrases has some discussion. Accurate statements? Respect Otto's sport actions were modern companred to tower leapers. Repect 1920c German sporting events that had hang gliding divisions. Respect early US college meets that had hang gliding division in some meets. We spectacularly ushered into history a birth of the persistent renaissance of the sport of hang gliding.

Scratch options for plaque wording:

OfferP1:
To commemorate
the
Otto Lilienthal Universal Hang Glider Championships
& 123rd Birthday Anniversary Party
of
Sunday May 23rd 1971
on this hill establishing on that day
the modern sport of hang gliding

OfferP2:
This hill
in Newport Beach City
on May 23, 1971:
the modern renaissance
of sport hang gliding
was born.

OfferP3
On this hill
in Newport Beach City
on May 23, 1971:
the modern renaissance
of sport hang gliding
was born.

OfferP4
From this hill
in Newport Beach City
on May 23, 1971:
the modern renaissance
of
sport hang gliding
was born.

OfferP5
From this hill
in Newport Beach City
on May 23, 1971:
the modern renaissance
of sport hang gliding
was launched.

OfferP6
The Modern Sport of Hang Gliding
Was Established on This Hill
at the
Great First Annual Universal Hang Glider
Championships & 123rd Otto Lilienthal
Anniversary Birthday Celebration
of May 23rd 1971

OfferP7
?

somehow it just does not feel right to leave off the actual title of the event-
part of the mystical attraction of the meet was to see who would be actually at the GREAT UNIVERSAL CHAMPIONSHIPS .. to simply leave it out of the text is like missing a big clue in NATIONAL TREASURE , this is the holy grail of hang glider meets !

Carving from Neil Larson's basis,
a further tweaked offer:

Off this hill
on
23 May 1971
people foot launched to fly
at the
First Annual Great
Universal Hang Glider Championships
celebrating
Otto Lilienthal's 123rd birthday,
sparking a
persistent renaissance
in world sport hang gliding.